Graduating Senior Sarah Tammen has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship.  She will use this award to support her graduate studies at MIT.  Sarah was winner of the the department's 2015 Charles M. Strahan Award for best junior  math major.  In the summer of 2014 Sarah participated in an REU at Williams College and in the summer of 2015 she was a a teaching assistant at the Summer Institute for Mathematics at the University of Washington.

President Obama Honors Extraordinary Early-Career Scientists

President Obama today named 105** researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The winners will receive their awards at a Washington, DC ceremony this spring.

Fun with Fonts: Mathematical Typography

Department of Mathematics Commencement Reception

Friday, May 13, 2016

2:00pm-4:00pm

There will be a small informal presentation ceremony at 2:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP Julie McEver no later than April 29, 2016.

Georgia Topology Conference

The Georgia Topology Conference has been hosted by the University of Georgia since 1961.

The 2016 Georgia Topology conference will focus on Parameterized Morse Theory in Low-Dimensional and Symplectic Topology.

It will take place May 25-29, 2016.

http://research.franklin.uga.edu/topology/content/georgia-topology-conference

Robert Rumely was named a member of the 2016 Class of  Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

 http://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows.  

He was cited for his contributions to arithmetic potential theory, computational number theory, and arithmetic dynamics.  

The 2015 UGA Math Department Career Day will be held on Monday, 12 October beginning at 5:30PM.  This year's event will take place in the Sloth lobby of Boyd.  Please register in Room 323.

We currently have 5 companies scheduled.  These companies are recruiting math students for jobs and/or summer internships.  Be sure to bring along a resume!

McKesson

Professor Persi Diaconis, Harvard University

Dr. Diaconis's first lecture, for a general audience, is co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, under its Humanities Science Interface Initiative. In this talk, Dr. Diaconis will discuss how coincidences can astound us, affecting where we live and what we do. In addition to reviewing relevant work of Freud and Jung, he will show how, sometimes, a bit of quantitative thinking can show that coincidences are not so surprising after all.